The new season of the Maxxi Museum in Rome, the first under the presidency of Alessandro Giuli and the artistic direction of Francesco Stocchi, shifts the gaze to the visitor, listening to contemporaneity.
Zaha Hadid’s building, work and shell at the same time, will be the protagonist of the first major exhibition project: the «Ambienti 1956-2010» exhibition. Environments by Women Artists II, which will open to the public on April 10 and will occupy the entire first floor of the museum and its outdoor spaces.
A project conceived by the Haus der Kunst in 2023 in which the environments are three-dimensional and immersive works, which are activated thanks to the public and are completed by the human presence, in which women stand out as the absolute protagonists of this dialogue of arts.
Cooperation with other museums and cultural institutions in Italy and around the world is one of Maxxi’s key points for 2024: the result of a prestigious collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the monographic exhibition ‘Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the horizon’, starting from 21 June. On the same date, a large interdisciplinary exhibition will also be inaugurated, curated and designed by the architect Italo Rota: «The abstract vision, physical experience of abstract thinking».
Architecture returns in autumn. «InMotion» arrives in October, an exhibition curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, one of the most famous New York design studios in the world. November will see the great return of fashion to the Museum spaces with Memorabile: Ipermoda, organized in collaboration with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion and curated by Maria Luisa Frisa. The exhibition offers a complex constellation of objects: clothes, accessories, but also images to tell the present and future of fashion.
The season ends in December with photography, with a monograph by Guido Guidi, an author who contributed to revolutionizing the way of relating to the contemporary landscape.
Through over 350 photographs, almost all vintage, many of which have never been exhibited before. This year too, Maxxi dedicates the utmost attention to the valorisation of talent with two prestigious prizes: the «Italian Architecture Prize», now in its fifth edition, is promoted and created by Maxxi and Triennale Milano and the «Maxxi Bulgari Prize», a project for the support and promotion of young artists who have united Maxxi and Bulgari since 2018.